The feelings of most nurses who remember the traditional white nurse's uniform fall somewhere in the middle. At one time, they wore their uniforms proudly, and speak of them with fondness today.

Nurses at the Royal Hobart Hospital have been told they should stop wearing fun scrubs or "free dress" and reminded they need to maintain "some professionalism" regarding their uniform. The matter was ...

But nursing was changing: It was becoming a profession with standards of education, practice, behavior, and dress all its own. It is possible that as nurses began to see themselves as trained ...